Daria and Jane remark everything's back to normal - i. The DVD edits go with a generic wordless piece. There are two ways to read Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman". The first is an American tragedy, the story of a "little man" whose spirit and life were crushed by the viciousness of everyday life.
But a second and in my view equally valid way to interpret the story is as a morality play with a happy ending. Compromise your values, lose sight of your dreams, cheat on your spouse, and you're dead. Clean, [unreadable], uncomplicated. It's almost a happy fantasy, really. In fact, when I'm feeling depressed, I crack open "Death of a Salesman" and [unreadable] the funeral scene for a quick pick-me-up. Ironically, I myself have learned quite a bit about current skort styles and materials by listening to Quinn and her friends, but unfortunately this does not help her grade.
Would that it could! When teachers and parents work together as partners, Look [sic] out world, nothing can stop us now! This episode is a common rationale for the trope that Daria, underneath her unfashionable clothing and behind her glasses, is conventionally attractive and just covering it up; numerous fanfics have run with this idea.
Quinn's reaction to Daria's appearance at the end of the episode is taken as evidence, that Quinn is scared of the school finding out how Daria really looks. YouthofOz 's " Life That Dare Not Speak Its Name " takes place around this story, showing how irritated Sandi was and revealing it was her that gave Daria the idea of "show[ing] Quinn what it feels like to steal who you are".
A novelization of this episode has been written by Martin J. Daria Fanworks Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Quinn the Brain. Edit source History Talk 0. Categories Episodes Add category. Cancel Save. Daria usually attempts to avoid engaging with the world, preferring to mock and snark at the things that annoy her rather than take action.
In Highland, she was pushed into working for the school newspaper by her parents Sporting Goods and while she did take part in a charity walk-a-thons Walkathon , she used it as a way to extort money out of Beavis and Butt-head and cause them physical pain. Sometimes, she decides on her own that she's had enough and is going to sort something out This Year's Model and other times she needs to be prodded Fizz Ed. Sometimes, in order to force things to a head, she will deliberately make things unpleasant and difficult in order to get an opponent to back down The Big House.
She has said on several occasions Fizz Ed, See Jane Run that she avoids action in order to avoid becoming more isolated and seen as more of a malcontent, and that she disengages because she's too sensitive to put up with the world she's in Gifted ; she admits this last point causes her to miss out on things, but she believes it "works for me now. Daria Morgendorffer, trapped in a situation she doesn't understand Fire! Daria started the series with an unspoken crush on Jane's older brother, Trent Lane , an attractive and cool twenty-something rocker.
While Jane and Trent were aware of this, Daria never dared speak about it out loud with the possible exception of Depth Takes a Holiday , in which Daria, under the spell of Cupid , admits as much ; eventually, after over a year show time , she admitted a relationship between the two of them would never work.
This was her only real experience of romance, and this inexperience and naivete would cause problems in Season 4 when she found herself becoming attracted to Jane's boyfriend Tom Sloane and needed to have Trent bluntly point out that Tom had a crush on her and that this needed to be dealt with Fire!
Her inability to handle the situation would cause the temporary dissolution of her friendship with Jane: she badly handled Jane's problems with her and Tom, ended up kissing Tom and was horrified afterwards and near-immediately admitted it to Jane , and later took Jane at her word when she said she'd be okay with Daria dating Tom Jane responded "and you believed me?! While Daria managed to salvage her friendship with Jane, her own actions could easily have ended it and throughout Season 5 there would be moments where she "jokingly" brought the events up.
Despite this, in Boxing Daria , Daria states than Jane is the person she trusts the most. It can be argued that this shows greater emotional maturity as she's recognizing things won't work or that this shows she's still not fully matured in regards to romance. Notably, Tom and Daria are still amiable after the breakup.
In Is It College Yet? Her parents had been trying to get her to be more sociable and conventional since a very young age, both out of concern and out of frustration. While their intentions are noble in Boxing Daria made it clear they did this because they were upset that their daughter was unhappy, and Is It Fall Yet?
Early attempts were shown to be asking Daria to just keep trying to play with the other kids and simply taking a book away from her at Camp Grizzly so she couldn't hide behind it, both options being crude and having the opposite effect. Most of their modern-day attempts had the same effectiveness, and usually showed them to be somewhat clueless about how to deal with their daughter. Despite that, she's sometimes recognized they're trying to help and she does love them: she's attempted several times to help her parents, usually sounding uncomfortable at the prospect of talking frankly to them, such as when she encouraged her father in Jake of Hearts and consoled her mother in Psycho Therapy.
In the latter, she admits she deliberately clams up around them because she knows they'd be attentive and she'd rather they weren't; in Of Human Bonding , she tries to convince her father not to try bonding with her for the same reasons.
In the latter, she also showed problems with opening up to him. In one of her darkest hours, Dye! My Darling , Daria turned to Helen for help and comfort. Jake has a pet name, "kiddo," for Daria and will sometimes turn to her if he needs help or advice, like in Aunt Nauseam. As he rarely pushes her to do things, she seems to get on more amiably with him than with her mother.
In Of Human Bonding , Daria thought: "he's afraid to be afraid. That's what's so heartbreaking. He's my father; shouldn't I let down the barricades for once and tell him I think he's a hero?
Three-year-old Daria being irritated by toddler Quinn Monster. This can be summed up with two words: total war.
The two sisters are very resentful of the other and that their differences regarding social standing and personalities drive a large amount of the conflict in the series; Quinn won't even admit for most of the series that Daria is her sister which irritates Daria. This goes back to Quinn's infancy : flashbacks to toddler Daria who her angrily wanted to "punish" baby Quinn for being loud, angrily yelling "Why can't I be an only child?!
Photos in The Daria Diaries even show Daria opening a door so Quinn, taking her baby steps, may wander outside! Both sides love to antagonize the other. Daria goes out of her way to go to places where she knows Quinn doesn't want her to go and embarrass her sister by existing in front of Quinn's friends.
In " The Invitation ", Daria sounded mildly impressed when Quinn got in a really vicious dig at her. Daria has also tried to deliberately ruin things for Quinn: in The F Word , she tried to 'fail' at preventing Quinn from being allowed to go to a fashion sale.
When they're not insulting or irritating each other, their dealings often resemble a business transaction such as laying out terms of requirements, expenses, exceptions, and final payment. On some rare occasions the two sisters have worked together to achieve some goal, usually to get out of trouble or to avoid it; these earlier team-ups were also done in a business-like fashion, such as when Daria incites Quinn That Was Then, This Is Dumb , with an offer of some form of payment or benefit, to gather scandalous blackmail information about their parents.
In spite of these differences, there does exist a level of sibling love between the two, even if they refuse to openly admit it. Daria has, to her discomfort, sometimes found herself helping Quinn: she backed her up against the Fashion Club in Just Add Water , guilted herself out of embarrassing her sister in " Monster ", and openly told Quinn "there's nothing wrong with you physically" in Too Cute when her sister was obsessed with imaginary imperfections.
When Quinn has come to Daria for serious advice, Daria has given it to the best of her ability. Daria has shown some sharp insight into her sister. In Psycho Therapy , she stated Quinn "wears superficiality like a suit of armor, because she's afraid to looking inside and finding absolutely nothing"; in Lucky Strike , she snaps at Quinn that she knows she's not stupid. Both girls agreed to respect bedrooms as sacrosanct and to have equal access to "essential resources" in the bathroom and kitchen "the refrigerator and the bathroom.
No one wants a replay of the bitter Cold Cream War of ". By the final episodes, their relationship warms considerably. In Aunt Nauseam , she even says to Quinn that they won't be arguing as adults like their mother and aunts do. While she only appeared in three episodes, Aunt Amy was highly significant for Daria's character: she shows a possible way an older Daria could turn out, something both of them were aware of in I Don't.
They share similar intellects and both have a sarcastic sense of humor, and were shown to get on extremely well. Later, Daria would be shown turning to Amy for advice and assistance. In Aunt Nauseam , however, Daria was disillusioned to find Amy was just as flawed as her mother and Aunt Rita, and was only contributing to a problem. Daria and Quinn had to solve the conflict themselves, and Amy recognized that fact.
Daria and Jane singing in Daria! Jane is the first and only friend Daria has ever made, by her own admission. Despite her history of deliberately isolating people and walling herself off, she almost immediately befriended Jane after the girl showed a similar cynical sense of humour.
In The Daria Diaries , she early on described Jane as "snide, resentful, and anti-social. Finally, a friend. An absence of Jane, and the fear it'd be permanent, in See Jane Run saw Daria begin to talk to herself.
Even she was bemused by this. In Is It Fall Yet? Jane is the person Daria trusts the most. A popular, bubbly, air-headed cheerleader, another antithesis of Daria. Despite their wildly different She sometimes mentions Daria's unpopularity or plain looks, but unthinkingly as if they're simple facts rather than maliciously. When she found out Daria was dating Jane's old boyfriend, she sounded both amused and impressed.
A popular football player and Brittany's boyfriend. Daria enjoys manipulating his stupidity like she did Beavis and Butt-head, and often insults him: he doesn't understand most of her insults.
Despite this, as with Brittany, he seems to view her as a friend: often seeking her advice The Misery Chick , Too Cute while unthinkingly bringing up her unpopularity at the same time, and in The Big House and Ill , being concerned for her welfare. In Partner's Complaint though, he panicked at the idea of hanging out with Daria for any length of time.
He once thought Tom was joking when he said he was Daria's date. Is It Fall Yet? She's one of the very few students that are on Daria's level intellectually. She and Daria sometimes clash over their divergent viewpoints or over Daria's misanthropic attitude Gifted , Partner's Complaint , Fizz Ed. Despite their personality clashes, Jodie often starts conversations with Daria and will often seek her advice Daria will sometimes snark instead.
Daria sometimes turns to Jodie when she can't speak to Jane, such as when Jane started dating Tom Partner's Complaint or when there were rumors about the sex life of Daria and Tom in school My Night at Daria's. Notably, in Gifted both girls admitted they sometimes wished they could be more like the other.
She is socially friendly with Daria: she has invited her to the Landon 4 th of July parties; she is concerned with Daria's welfare. The school's horn-dog. He first met her in The Invitation and has repeatedly crossed paths with her ever since, nearly always trying to flirt and get a date.
Daria responds to this with horror and put-downs; Upchuck views her as " fi esty! Quinn's fashion-obsessed friends. Daria's path has crossed with theirs several times, much to the horror of both sides; they'll only deliberately seek her out if they're desperate.
The Club used to pretend they didn't know Daria was Quinn's sister. Daria and Jane once casually bet on whether the Club would dissolve, and then tried to nudge events Fat Like Me. Sometimes, when Sandi Griffin is clearly trying something against Quinn, Daria will take minor action to help her sister Just Add Water. A moody Goth. Her one encounter with Daria was in Mart of Darkness , when Daria and Jane caught her in an embarrassing situation: she angrily challenged them to "cut me up like you do everyone else".
This led to embarrassment all round when Jane admitted she just wanted to buy a shoelace. This shows Daria is unpopular even with other outcast kids, seen as an unpleasant figure to be avoided. Despite all these people she knows, and the clear signs that the former three view her as a friend, Daria has referred to Jane as her only friend. She has also referred to being isolated - and most of the school doesn't talk to her - and has made mention of going for days without being approached by anyone.
Write Where It Hurts However, Daria's conversation with Helen after her argument with Jodie in Partner's Complaint suggests that she sees Jodie as some sort of friend with the question "Do you think I'm a rigid, unrealistic, unforgiving self-righteous jerk who can't hold on to a friend?
Outside of Jane and briefly Ted, Daria never had any real contact or attempts at contact with the other outcast students at Lawndale. Glenn Eichler has stated this was deliberate: "[we didn't want to] create a comfortable alternative world where Daria and Jane could be stars among their misfit peers Any teacher that has Daria for any length of time develops strong opinions of her, and she often finds herself being drawn into their subplots:.
He recognises and admires her writing skills and grasp of literature and art, and often calls on her to give answers in class and volunteer extra work and will sometimes be 'inspired' by things she says to do class assignments he seems to come up with them himself while she protests. Ever since she graduated from self-esteem class early by cheating , he's viewed her as someone he's mentoring and says he's her "writing mentor" in The Lost Girls ; he never seems to acknowledged he that he's irritating her and that she'd rather he stop bothering her.
In The Daria Diaries he says that dealing with Daria is emotional bruising for him but he sticks with it because she reminds him of himself as a child. For her part, he's one of her main foes: in The F Word she's barely bothered that he's had a major crisis of faith and only helps him to use him against Quinn; she deliberately goes for the jugular in Cafe Disaffecto ; expresses contempt for his rewriting in Arts 'N Crass ; and when talking to troubled kid Link , she says that even if O'Neill asked her to talk to the lad "I would never tell him anything anyway.
Her History teacher, initially distrusted her because she, alone in his class, knew the answers and snapped at her to not show off. He later warmed to her, as she actually paid attention in class and was competent. She makes him want to kill himself "a little less", he tells her in " Just Add Water "; by the end of the series, he's cheering her as she receives an award for her academic achievement.
Daria is quite happy to make sarcastic comments about his angry outbursts but otherwise seems to get on well with him. Janet is a teacher who is in favor of Daria's academic skill and her being a woman. Daria finds Barch's rabid misandry laughable and is often willing to snark about her out of Barch's hearing. Was a minor antagonist in See Jane Run , with Daria finding herself clashing with the gym coach when she tries to sneak cheerleading practice into class.
The two dislike each other and Morris thinks little of her, and does eventually force Daria to engage in the practice. Principal Li is Daria's other main foe and, unlike O'Neill, deliberately malevolent: the two have clashed, both verbally and all-out, on occasions.
Li is eager to use Daria's academic achievements for the benefit of the school and, along with every other student, force and threaten her into "volunteering" and schemes. Daria will sometimes push back and sometimes brings down Li's schemes outright This Year's Model and a number of times has had to clear up or navigate a mess Li's made " Just Add Water ", " Antisocial Climbers ".
The principal had to begrudgingly give Daria an award for academic achievement at graduation and was very unhappy about it, while Jane was surprised Daria didn't assault Li with the award. Back at Highland High, Mr.
Van Driessen made favourable comments about Daria's work U. History and required her aid in The Great Bungholio , while Daria seemed concerned for him when he was injured in non-speaking part episode Field Trip; Coach Buzzcut trusted her enough to be his second in command when he has to take potentially fatal action in Water Safety ; and early science teacher Mrs. Dickie ignored Daria's protests and forced her to work with Beavis and Butt-head in " Scientific Stuff ", saying it'd be a "learning experience" did Daria piss her off at some point?
While Daria doesn't think much of any of her teachers, at least during Season 1 - in The Daria Diaries she says she respects her superiors "if only I could find any," in regards to the faculty - the teachers often seem to think a lot of her , with a few exceptions Morris and Li who are corrupt and powerful figures. She can be a handful but is loyal and inside her armor beats a heart of gold. Takes a deep breath With Daria, how can I put this, she's constantly being pushed into directions and into situations she doesn't want to be pushed into.
By her parents, Her teachers in school, her peers. And that shaped her into the stand-offish person she became. But I never once saw her throw a fit, she took it all on the chin and went "Is that all you got? I saw a kindred spirit, bullied like I was. I hope she forgave me. Outside of school Daria has very little interaction with anybody save from a couple of very important exceptions.
Amelia is a girl of Daria's age who met her at Camp Grizzly when both of them were still children. Amelia saw Daria as her closest friend but never looked any further to find out how Daria herself viewed their Friendship. Amelia becomes very angry when Daria put in clear language that as far as she was concerned Amelia had been nothing more than a follower.
Causing Amelia to lash out at the Camp Grizzly counselors and naming Daria as being the one who opened her eyes by being insensitive and unfriendly. However at the end of the episode, the two part on good terms.
Link is a boy in his pre-teens who attends Timothy O'Neil's "Okay to cry" corral. He has a bad relationship with his father and bonds with Daria over the fact that she's the only one who doesn't want to talk with him about that but does the opposite.
She listens as Link has a lot he wants to get off his chest. When O'Neil's disastrous sense of tact makes it appear as if he had urged Daria to reach out to Link, he becomes angry at her But allows her to speak to him explaining the whole thing to him.
She later starts a Pen-pal correspondence with him. Daria's personal view of relationships with boys can be seen as being summed up in a single line, spoken to Jane in Dye! My Darling : "Can you picture me making out with anyone? An in-depth observation of the character reveals her to genuinely be interested in romance. However, she's:.
She has developed very high standards for men. Who she developed a crush on since meeting him and while Trent was aware of her feelings, he never acted upon them. A notable exception in Pierce Me , where he uses her crush on him as an encouragement to be a bit more daring. After getting over her crush, Trent turned into a trusted friend who comes up with good advice such as in The Misery Chick , where he guides Daria towards Jane's room despite the latter's wishes to be left alone.
In the remainder of the series Daria and Trent continue to socialize, having found mutual respect for the other. Her crush on Trent was never acted upon, even though Trent was aware of it and would sometimes gently play up to it; this was most notable in " Pierce Me ", where he told her how "hot" a piercing would make her and in a clearly flirtatious way.
She'd try to cover up her crush but sudden loss of speech " This Year's Model " or outright blushing Pierce Me made it obvious. MTV's "It Takes Two to Tangle" described the situation as: "Quite a bit of sublimation and projection going on here, and not much action. Here is a rare example of passive-passive behavior. She would eventually realize they just wouldn't be compatible Jane's Addition , thought she'd realized before that he would make for an unreliable partner and what made him seem cool now would be pathetic in later: when trying to visualize their future together, her first vision was Trent as an unemployed, lazy failure whom she had to support Lane Miserables.
After the end of the crush, her relationship with Trent developed into a good friendship with a lot of trust; Trent even came to her aid with some well placed advice in Fire!
Glenn Eichler has said he likes the idea of Daria being shipped with Luhrman from I Don't , and the two did get on well and had similar interests: she even invited him to join her and Aunt Amy , a rare sociable act. It never went anywhere though. She had a brief sort-of relationship with Ted DeWitt-Clinton , who showed interest in her and which she found herself interested in back; however, she automatically tried to push him away and was highly nervous of the idea of hooking up with him.
She eventually decided to give it a try, but it was too late and they drifted apart. Tom Sloane was her first real boyfriend and she initially tried to push him away, as with Ted; while guilt over betraying Jane played a part, Daria was clearly rattled by Tom's angry point that she was afraid to have a relationship in case it made her "vulnerable".
Tom's different class would go on to cause problems, as would her recurring inability to verbalize any problems she had such as her concerns he was taking her for granted, Sappy Anniversary ; Daria tended to have a lot of problems, being nervous and edgy on many occasions as she tried to navigate unfamiliar territory.
Despite problems, she was insightful enough to notice and eventually apologize when she was being difficult with Tom; the two would usually talk through these issues by the end of the day. Daria would sometimes turn to Tom for advice. His family background puts him at risk for hyper-exclusivity. The relationship managed to last for almost a year, but came under clear strain again during the college application period, partly due again to differing views and social circumstances, and partly due to actions by Tom that Daria didn't properly challenge: she ended up losing out on visiting Boston campuses after Tom decided, without asking her first, to stay at Bromwell longer to network with a professor to get "influence" sent both their ways , and didn't view it as a big deal that they'd have less time and, when they were hideously late, joked it was a good thing they didn't get to Bromwell this late, pissing her off.
In one scene in Is It College Yet? She was also initially put off by his offer to try and use family influence to get her into Bromwell, saying to Jane it felt like "some crappy romance novel where the troubled young viscount decides the lowly stable girl is good enough for him after all" and that she didn't see why their word should mean more than her own abilities.
Soon after, Daria ended the relationship herself, stating they were taking two different paths and becoming bored of the relationship. She spent the next few days despondent and fearing that "opt[ing] for honesty" was going to leave her alone and unloved She would admit to Tom that, on reflection, she had enjoyed their time together, and the two agreed to remain on friendly terms.
This is presumably a joke, although Daria seems annoyed with Jane for saying this. She'd also decided she was in favour of Valentine's Day, largely because of the discount chocolates on the day after. Actress Tracy Grandstaff has suggested that Daria may not have ever "expected a guy to be interested in her—until Tom came along Her actual relationship with Tom wasn't like that at all: as noted in Sappy Anniversary , they usually stayed at each other's homes watching TV and rarely went out, and they rarely made romantic gestures.
Daria was only bothered by this in "Sappy" when, after a discussion with Quinn, she became worried that the lack of outward romance meant she was being taken for granted.
In My Night at Daria's , the issue of sex came up: it was said it had previously done so, and Daria hadn't been ready. When she decided to try with Tom, she was annoyed that he was more ready and verbally attacked him for keeping condoms in his wallet; she then bottled it at the last minute, and assumed Tom would want to break up with her over it.
She would admit to him that the idea of that much physical intimacy was too overwhelming and scared her, with a secondary fear that Tom would be "disappointed" with her performance. Throughout the series, it's told by other characters that Daria is a good writer. There are rarely any examples of Daria's writing, with the following exceptions: " The Daria Diaries " has part of a creative writing homework assignment Cafe Disaffecto and The Old and the Beautiful have excerpts of her Melody Powers stories; an English essay about "Death of a Salesman" is shown on the DVD version of " Quinn the Brain "; and " Write Where It Hurts " shows multiple examples of rejected stories and ends with an 'adaptation' of one of her stories.
Outside of "Write", all of the above - as well as the " The Story of D ", references to writing "violent revenge fantasies" in " Boxing Daria ", and a mention of a story she was writing in " Is It College Yet? They appear to be somewhat lurid as well. The first Melody Powers story and likely the homework assignment in "Write" was deliberately over the top to get back at Mr O'Neill.
The virus story in "The Story of D" used a variety of writing styles.
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